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(SALEM, Ore.) - Those of us who are in the business of taking a public stand against Zionist "high crimes and misdemeanors" are used to being assailed by the AIPAC/ADL/Hasbara crew and their puppets. It comes with the turf.

For example, we've occasionally seen comments posted to the effect that Alan Sabrosky is a deep-cover former KGB officer trying to ingratiate himself with some cash-heavy Arabs; that Jeff Gates, an esteemed lawyer was smeared; that Gordon Duff is a pen name for a convicted Israeli drug trafficker trying to get back at the people who caught him; and that Tim King is a renegade deep-cover Moonie smoking his way to oblivion in Salem.

Most of these attacks are sufficiently heavy-handed and bizarre to be readily dismissed out of hand by almost anyone who reads or hears them, and even quicker to be discredited by others on whatever forum they appear -- Israeli apologists excepted, of course.

Some are both enticing and funny. One trying to show that Sabrosky could never have served in Vietnam had him being 13 in 1975 and graduating from the Army War College 11 years later at 24, which would have made him 20 years younger (he was then actually 44) without a face-lift and be a rising Alexander the Great at one and the same time! Almost a pity that wasn't true, he opined....

But there has been a flurry of recent attacks that are more serious, because the way in which they are presented could deceive people by assuming a wholly inappropriate aura of authenticity. One questioned the entire credentials and life history of one of us, citing a fictitious "investigation" by a corps of "genealogists and private investigators" at a mythical American wire service called API, close enough to the real ones (there are two: AP & UPI) to be falsely taken as legitimate. The whole thing was nonsense, of course, but it was the type of disinformation that can be misleading, and cause honest readers to question or doubt someone or some arguments that merit neither of those things.

Another assailed Salem-News.com and its staff for a host of sins, all relating to a failure to appreciate and endorse Zionist claims and actions. The intent may have been to cause people to recant or to change their views, or at least to cause some dissention among their writers. If so, it not only failed, it backfired completely -- ADL and company are used to academics and politicians backing down when confronted by the usual assertions of "anti-Semitism." But those of us in this war -- and it is a war -- are made of rather sterner stuff, as they are finding out.

In a way, these attacks are a back-handed compliment of sorts. We are making a difference, or at least the brigade of Zionist operatives and organizations anticipate that, otherwise they wouldn't bother with these things.

But for the readership, let us encourage any and all who have questions or concerns about us or our positions, or simply read critical comments along those lines on a forum or some mass emailing, to feel absolutely free to contact any or all of us. We are all very public people with very public email addresses, our personal histories are a matter of public record (just use any search engine), and we are more than willing to respond to issues of fact or assertion brought to our attention.

Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines.

Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website. You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com

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Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs. In December 1988, he received the Superior Civilian Service Award after more than five years of service at the U.S. Army War College as Director of Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, and holder of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. He is listed in WHO'S WHO IN THE EAST (23rd ed.).

A Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and a 1986 graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Dr. Sabrosky's teaching and research appointments have included the United States Military Academy, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Middlebury College and Catholic University; while in government service, he held concurrent adjunct professorships at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Sabrosky has lectured widely on defense and foreign affairs in the United States and abroad. You can email Dr. Alan Sabrosky at: docbrosk@comcast.net

Jeff's latest book is Guilt By Association — How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War (2008). His previous books include Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street and The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century. For two decades, an adviser to policy-makers worldwide. Counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee (1980-87). Jeff is a Veteran of the Vietnam War, where he served as in the U.S. Army as an officer. For more: information, visit:criminalstate.com You can email Jeff Gates at this address: jeffgates2@gmail.com

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Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and a regular contributor to Veterans Today. He specializes in political and social issues. You can see a large collection of Gordon's published articles at this link: VeteransToday.com.

He is an outspoken advocate for veterans and his powerful words have brought about change. Gordon is a lifelong PTSD sufferer from his war experiences and he is empathetic to the plight of today's veterans also suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to feature Gordon's timely and critical reports on Salem-News.com, a news organization staffed by a number of veterans, particularly former U.S. Marines.You can send Gordon Duff an email at this address: Gpduf@aol.com

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Chuck Palazzo is a Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran, the Interim Editor for Agent Orange, and a longtime Vietnam Veterans Against the War Member. Chuck Palazzo has spent years since the war studying the impacts and effects of Agent Orange, a defoliant chemical sprayed by the U.S. govt. on the jungles of Vietnam. He says Dioxins have been re-discovered to cause all sorts of damage to humans. These include Heart Disease, Parkinsonism, Diabetes etcetera. Dioxins are already known to produce serious birth defects and a variety of cancers. The chemical is still sold in Third World Countries and causing the same problems.

We at Salem-News.com welcome Chuck aboard and look forward to sharing more of his stories with our readers in the future. You can send Chuck Palazzo an email at this address: chuck_pal@yahoo.com

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Osotan; May 13, 2010 6:50 pm (Pacific time)

actually, the photo of Gordon Duff does look like he's suspicious,daring those with an over the top challenging gaze replete with venomous intent,if I was a zionist I'd be requesting some new razor wire from the obama administration,hell I'd fence off israel And Afghanistan and start building new settlements for a greater Jerusalem!See what I mean? His photo itself stirs controversy. He may even be sympathetic to the Palestinians!!! He must be guilty of something. Check out that Sabronsky guy too,he has a look of frightning intellect,and officers who can read a map are truly dangerous.,like a fox if you get my drift.So take your prozac-xanax and get back to the murdoch media,buy a car and get some more credit cards while you can. After all,the rest of the world owes us! Thank you very much.

Zahi May 12, 2010 4:49 pm (Pacific time)

Revel in glory when the minions of the anti-Christ falsely accuse you of anti-semitism

RichJ May 12, 2010 10:21 am (Pacific time)

I have read articles by Alan Sabroski and Gordon Duff in the past and thought they were right on target. Blind support for Israel and the Zionists is not in our best interest and must stop.
Salem-News.com is now bookmarked, I will be back to see what else they are reporting on.
Rich Johnson USMC 79-83

Coral Anika Theill May 12, 2010 3:19 am (Pacific time)

David Bedworth, thank you for your kind words. I am also proud to be a member of the Salem-News.com team and hope I have the privilege of meeting you and the rest of the team someday. It saddens me when people turn a blind eye to suffering, anyone's suffering.
Tim and Bonnie King and Salem-News.com supports victims and the oppressed wherever they may be. Tim and Bonnie King exemplify these beautiful quotes: "Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must–at that moment–become the center of the universe." - Holocaust survivor, Eli Wiesel
"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." - Holcaust Museum
Praying for everyone's highest good. I often reflect on the words from the Talmud, "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
Shalom,
Coral Anika Theill,
Author, Advocate, Survivor,
Reporter for Salem-News.com,
Mother of Lost Children,
"Comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable."

Osotan; May 11, 2010 7:17 pm (Pacific time)

it comes down to Ten Million bucks a day from the U.S. to israel. What would $10,000,000 a day do for Detroit? Flint? Seattle? Cleveland,Salem or New Orleans? If the zionists belive in their god so much what the hell do they need us for, in fact what the hell does god need any of us for? Don't tell me because he loves us, and I doubt if god needs the money when this higher power can miracle a lake full of fish and feed five thousand with two loaves of bread,etc,etc. Who writes this stuff? A zionist would've demanded bagels from Roses on 23rd street and not shared them with anyone! Call me anti-semetic! I suppose the Palestinians are thought of as such,and look how much love they receive. They came from Hagai, who was part of Abraham's harem when multiple wives were considered a show of wealth and power. Seems to me this tradition has just about bakrupted all credibility to the chosen oracles of god.,but alas I am but a gentile scratching for crumbs fallen from the table of the banquet. If I was zionist I'd be scared shitless if three or more Marines were gathered to testify. They'd think it was a conspiricy in the making, no wonder they lose so much sleep. Semper Fidelis.

David Bedworth May 11, 2010 6:54 pm (Pacific time)

Coral - thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences. I am proud to be a member of the team despite my background as mustang in the Marine Corps. I am sure someone will challenge that and reveal that I was raised by aliens in Scotland.

Vic May 11, 2010 5:50 pm (Pacific time)

I personally know people in: Belgium,Al Maghazi- Gaza, Mexico, the UK, Mawali, Alabama (yes, they have the internet now..)Florida, not to mention Oregon, Washington and California who check out S-N regularly. The success and growth of S-N has actually kind of retored my faith in the concept of Karma...that if you do good things and do what is right regardless of the fallout you may incur, then good things happen to you. Patrick.."me thinks thou dost protest a bit too much"...

Anonymous May 11, 2010 4:09 pm (Pacific time)

Gordon duff is awesome, and for those that think salem-news is small needs to check into the stats. I am seeing Tim's articles on many websites throughout the world. no, Tim is not glenn beck, and MSM but his truth about what is going on in the middle east is commendable. And even tho not MSM, the truth speaks much louder. An ounce of truth is more powerful than tons of BS. IMHO, he still has a bit to learn, mostly in regards to what the same people are doing in Palestine, are doing it in the U.S. also, but he is doing well...thank you for posting my comments.

Tim King: Myself aside, this whole group is esteemed; Alan's background is incredible; and he had ten years in the Corps before dialing in with the current subjects. Gordon, I never know what part of the world he's in when he writes, and Chuck never stops covering the most important material relating to Americans in Vietnam.... all esteemed!

Josh Akers May 11, 2010 2:25 pm (Pacific time)

I wish someone hated me for telling the truth. In due time...

Patrick Leeson May 11, 2010 1:58 pm (Pacific time)

This is my first time on this site, so is this article "tongue in cheek?" You have foreign operatives coming to your site to cause problems? Why? The reason I came here was because of some email my daughter got and shared with me the other day about this site, would you like to see it? Maybe you have a point, but it appears that you are not that big to create a situation where someone would be concerned about any significant influence you might have on a international level, much less even a state or town level. Maybe if you were many times larger, but you must just appeal to a very small population that shares your rather limited type of news and opinion pieces. Oh well, to each their own. I just don't see why anyone, especially any Jewish organization, would care about such a tiny website to spend precious resources to challenge your viewpoints. Doesn't make sense.

Editor: Well that was interesting Patrick, have you ever looked up a Website's statistics before? You have a great deal to learn, we are not tremendously large, but we are hovering around the 60k mark of all the world's tabulated 185 million active Websites, very few of which are actual news sites. So anyway, carry on, don't worry about us; Mr. tongue in cheek. At least you didn't toss in twenty little jabs along the way, only ten maybe.

Anonymous May 11, 2010 12:25 pm (Pacific time)

from Cain and Abel, to Jesus turning over the tables of the money changers, to Andrew Jackson fighting the money changers, to JFK fighting the money changers, to present day Goldman Sachs ie: the zioist movement. Over the centuries, these people have been kicked out of hundreds of countries, its time to remove them from their takeover of our country. They now own most of DC, the media, the education system, etc. so I dont think removing them is a possibility, but researching and being aware of who they are is of great importance at this time.
What they are doing to the Palestinians is atrocious, but what they have done to this country is even more atrocious. They used American will to succeed, only to use the success to build their world empire of tyranny. Now that they have their world domination via the WHO, the IMF, NATO, the federal reserve bank, Goldman Sachs, and the BIS who oversees dozens of central banks all over the world, they dont need the U.S. anymore. except to turn us into slaves, removing all design of the Constitution thru the media/education/illegal immigration. The U.S. just gave the bankers 140 billion dollars to pay off the loan Greece had to them, while our veterans go homeless. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

gp May 11, 2010 6:01 am (Pacific time)

The work here at SN is making a difference. I can feel it, I was thrilled to read yesterday in SN that Norman Finklestein thinks that world opinion is changing too.

Coral Anika Theill May 11, 2010 5:22 am (Pacific time)

When I reflect on Tim and Bonnie King's acts of support, encouragement, advocacy, kindness and selflessness towards me these past couple years, I am reminded of the quote, "You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them."
Tim and Bonnie King of Salem-News.com (http://salem-news.com) deserve the title of "unsung heroes" for their publication of articles and personal advocacy for victims of abuse and injustice in America and throughout the world.
I attended the "Silent Vigil for Mothers of Lost children" in front of the White House on Mother's Day. I spoke about Tim and Bonnie King doing what Oprah and the rest of the media has failed to do, EXPOSE THE UGLY SECRET OF loving mothers losing permanent custody and visitation of their children in America. Over a 100 mothers of lost children and their supporters gave Tim and Bonnie King and SALEM-NEWS.COM a loud round of applause!
I remain in awe and respect of their exceptional professional abilities, as well as their own profound wisdom and intuitive skills.
Tim and Bonnie King's articles are "light" in what sometimes can appear to be a very dark world. Their articles are a legacy for those who wish to "choose to face the light." When the pupil is ready, the teacher arrives.
Tim and Bonnie King role model the true definition of "freedom." True freedom begins the day we walk away from fear, scarcity, blame and guilt. We must take responsibility for our own life, to the best of our ability, and help serve as beacons along the way.
It is my hope and prayer that individuals facing insurmountable crisis and tragedies will be blessed with compassionate advocates extraordinaire such as Tim and Bonnie King. Their profound articles covering all aspects of human life and suffering remind me of one of my favorite quotes: "Comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable." Their compassion has been equally balanced by a healthy sense of humor, which to this day, I appreciate.
In short, there are journalists who report the news and then there are a select few who inspire, challenge and enlighten their readers. Because of their courage and their passion to "be the change they wish to see in the world," Tim and Bonnie King are the later. Their work will continue to raise the consciousness of our society today and in years to come.
Respectfully,
Coral Anika Theill
Author, Advocate, Survivor, Reporter for Salem-News.com and Mother of Lost Children
Published book website: http://bonshea.com